Episode 6 with Gordon Spence

Gordon is a registered psychologist (NSW), an accredited exercise scientist, senior lecturer, researcher, and private practitioner. He is a past Academic Program Director of the Master of Business Coaching, Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong, and past Head of Students at UOW Sydney campus. Alongside his teaching and research activities, Gordon has maintained a coaching practice for 20 years, through which he provides a range of executive/workplace coaching and coach training services across a wide variety of industries and sectors. Gordon is extremely pragmatic and strongly focused on helping clients understand key areas of development and enact plans that can produce tangible and sustainable results. Gordon holds a PhD in coaching psychology from the Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney and has vast experience teaching the psychology of peak performance, responsible leadership, employee engagement, workplace wellbeing, and evidence-based coaching practice. He also writes exclusively on many of these topics, was co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Coaching (2017) and past joint editor-in-chief of Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal. Due to his keen interest in all aspects of human performance, Gordon recently completed a Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science, whilst also writing two books on the importance of physical activity to healthy ageing. Within this area he is working on innovations that bridge the intention-behaviour gap, especially for adults struggling to reconnect to physical activity in mid-life.